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As mentioned in this article, updating this from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0 was quite straightforward.

If you look at a .NET 5.0 App Service (website) in the Azure portal, you will currently (3 Feb 2021) see that the Applications Insight link in the left hand menu is disabled, with a tooltip when you hover over it saying that Application Insights is not yet supported for ...

A quick note to warn users of Microsoft's Azure functions: I have quite often found that the Monitor facility misses out showing some recent function runs. Querying the Application Insights logs for traces, requests and exceptions is more reliable.

For many years I have been active in music as well as in software, playing piano or double bass. For a glimpse of this other side of me, I am going to put up some tracks or videos. I have just put a couple of sound files on SoundCloud - ...

A quick blog post about migrating from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 5.0. I have found this reasonably straightforward in a number of projects, with some exceptions: There is still no .NET 5.0 version of Azure functions so they have to remain .NET Core 3.1 for the time being in ...

I follow various barristers, solicitors and police accounts on Twitter and have been aware for some time that the criminal justice system in the UK has been subjected to underfunding for many years. At times, I'm told that working conditions are unsanitary or even unsafe. I have set up a ...

This shows an embedded slideshow from my Smugmug site of my work on various software projects.

David Wilkie has just published a new version (4.0) of his model for the Covid19 virus, it is available under the 10 April 2020 entry on https://davidwilkieworks.wordpress.com/coronavirus-covid-19/ . This version allows longer delays between infection, symptoms appearing, cases being reporting, and deaths.

On 6 April 2020 Microsoft released new versions of Nuget Packages to enable developers to read and write to Azure Storage accounts. For example, to connect to blobs (binary large objects, typically images or files), use the new Azure.Storage.Blobs Nuget package. (e.g. I have just used version 12.4.1). Example of ...

There is no perfect model, and it seems clear that there is still a lot of uncertainty about how long the Covid-19 virus is infectious for, how long carriers can be both asymptomatic and contagious. The UK government seem to be expecting the current epidemic to peak within a couple ...